My cousin sold his Xbox trying to change his life and whatnot. He said he was going to learn how to play guitar and become a social butterfly or whatever. A year later, he's barely learned "Smoke On The Water" and spends all day wistfully watching Lets Plays of games he wishes he could be playing.

year ago was going to see a girl. tidy my house and move out, stop my pc gaming get more work drive get my guitar everything, year later house is still a **** tip, still stuck playing wow all day, almost went to see girl but didnt, so literally nothing changed in a year except losing like £1000 on failed prospects.

moral of the story, unless you actually are going to change something dont even attempt to otherwise you will just dick yourself.

actually playing the guitar means you can improvise really well and can learn songs by ear, but he said his cousin barely learned smoke on the water.... that's just one song with just a few note's.... that doesn't take you a year if you actually practise!

well whatever you are going to buy, my advice to you is not rush into buying a new guitar. i have bought an esp ltd EC401 fm a year ago for 750 euro and i didn't really like it and my main guitar now is a squier classic vibe telecaster which only costed 350, so try things out before you go buy it.

and after all my experience with guitars i'm now actually the bassist of a metal band, did not expect that would happen

My suggestion is to make sure you actually get a chance to play the instrument before you buy it. Not all guitars are made equal, even in the same model line. You'd be surprised how many people will order a guitar online or something, then when they get it they realize that they hate the neck, or something else about the guitar sucks that they would have realized if they had played it before hand.